Computer Science Education Week

December 3, 2018

Happy Computer Science Education Week! December 3 through 9 is Computer Science Education Week — and final exam week for Georgia Southern. Did you know that Georgia has 21,267 open computing jobs (4.2 times the state average for the US)? In fact, 58% of all new jobs in STEM areas are in computing.

The average salary for a computing occupation in Georgia is $90,913 (per code.org). Of the 1,747 computer science graduates in Georgia in 2015, only 19% were female. To find out more about Computer Science at Georgia Southern, check out https://cec.georgiasouthern.edu/cs/. To find out about activities, including Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week, go to https://csedweek.org.